Brendan Brown writes for Science Blog on natural history and the history of science. He founded The Expert Editor, a professional editing practice, in 2012, and spent years editing manuscripts before writing for the publication.
The deepest satisfaction doesn't arrive during rest — it emerges when you're so absorbed in a challenging task that time disappears and self-consciousness evaporates entirely.
Aug 3, 2026
A Cold War-era robot's forgotten mirror just became a window into the Moon's past, decades after everyone stopped looking.
Aug 3, 2026
A device that predicted celestial events with mechanical precision lay forgotten underwater for two millennia, only to challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient engineering.
Aug 3, 2026
A celebrated study on childhood self-control may have missed the real driver of success all along: your parents' bank account.
Aug 2, 2026
For 300 million years, this ungainly creature with a pig's body and a turtle's beak dominated every habitat it inhabited—outcompeting dinosaurs themselves through sheer evolutionary staying power.
Jul 19, 2026
A predator and its prey have abandoned millions of years of evolutionary conflict to build something neither could construct alone.
Jul 19, 2026
Honey's low water activity, acidity and sugar content resist microbial growth. The familiar story about edible honey recovered from Egyptian tombs is not well documented.
Jul 10, 2026
Ask a child to draw the Sun and they will reach for the yellow crayon. Ask an adult, and they will do the same, without thinking about it.
Jul 9, 2026
Somewhere in the low, rust-coloured hills north of Perth, in a remote scrap of Western Australia called Jack Hills, a geologist bent down in 2001 and picked up a piece of rock.
Jul 9, 2026
